6-year-old Amos Steinberg was sent to the Auschwitz camp together with his mother in 1944. Most likely, they were both murdered in the gas chamber right after the selection. In one of the shoes at the Memorial, a handwritten record was found containing the boy’s data.
Info from TVN24.PL (site in Polish language)
How was the inscription found and who made it?
The inscription was probably made by Amos’s mother. The discovery was made while working to secure the shoes of the victims of the German Auschwitz camp, which are on display at the main exhibition at the Memorial.
In one of the children’s shoes a handwritten inscription was found: the child’s name and surname, transport designation and the number under which the child was registered on the transport list (transport Ba 541). It belonged to Amos Steinberg, who was born on June 26, 1938. He lived in Prague. On August 10, 1942, together with his parents, Ludwig and Ida, he was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto near Prague. They were all deported to Auschwitz
Paweł Sawicki from the Museum’s press office
Split families
Hanna Kubik from the collections department of the institution informed that the preserved documents show that the mother and son were deported to Auschwitz in one transport on October 4, 1944. The father, on the other hand, was deported in another transport. We know that on October 10, 1944, he was transferred from Auschwitz to the Dachau camp. He was liberated in the Kaufering sub-camp.
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Shoes with news
Hanna Kubik also informed the TVN24.PL NEws Site that these are not the first, and probably not the last, shoes that hold papers inside them. The papers (newspapers usually) would be inserted to the soles to keep warm – for good insulation. They are valuable items now, as they are in good condition. But this piece that was just discovered is unique in the data that it holds – because it bares dates, names and even handwritten signatures. More items as such emerge, coming from 1941-1942.
The documents belonged to people who probably lived in Munkacz and Budapest. “Some of them are official documents, there is also a fragment of a brochure and a scrap of paper with the name on it. The names of Ackermann, Bravermann and Beinhorn appear. Probably these people were deported to Auschwitz in the spring or summer of 1944 during the extermination of Hungarian Jews”, said Hanna Kubik.
More photos of the shoe and the document found can be seen on the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum site.
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